Distributed Cooperative Planning and Scheduling for Disaster Management

To ensure the safety of lives and property and the recovery of the affected areas, today´s disaster management requires effective planning of a wide range of resources and timely collaboration of public services. The paper proposes an intelligent cooperative planning and scheduling environment that comprises the communication infrastructure, the data infrastructure, and the programming framework in which distributed, component-based agents work together to achieve the ability to dynamically plan, implement and control coordinated efforts for disaster response and recovery. Involving multi-disciplinary design considerations, our environment supports for multi-dimensional information flow within and between responders, multi-concurrent incidents reaction and coordination, optimal resource planning and allocation and decision making, and dynamic adaptability to the rapidly changing external environment.